Home Brewing Biography:started with a mr. beer and didn't stop growing and improving until i built my 15 gallon electric brewery.

Future Brews:yes.

Primary:mead at the moment - too warm in phoenix to brew beer this time of year (August)

Bottled:mostly barleywines of various strengths - all over 10%

Kegged:barleywine - over 12.5%

Status:Married

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Posted in thread: Help me figure out where my Scottish went wrong on 03-02-2010 at 02:59 AMfor what its worth, my guess is that the 1056 yeast attenuated too much for a scotch ale - i
brew malty styles all the time, but i don't use el chico - next time try a yeast with lower
attenuation and...

Posted in thread: Beer Kits vs. "your own recipe" on 01-17-2005 at 04:11 AMThat would be a typical upgrade price for liquid yeast, maybe a dollar less than that. Sounds
like you got a good deal that day. We won't be participating in this forum anymore. Best of
luck to you. A...

Posted in thread: Barley wine or strong beer on 01-17-2005 at 02:09 AMGee. Same maltiness, similar fruitiness, same color range = "zero similarity"? Actually, the
original question was about what was referred to as a "Double Bock." I did make a typo in the
name of our d...

Posted in thread: Beer Kits vs. "your own recipe" on 01-17-2005 at 12:37 AMDesert,Is that the Brew Your Own store in Tucson? Do his kits come with bottle caps and priming
sugar, a la Brewer's Best? Same price as BB, but with liquid yeast? If so, that's quite a
bargain.FYI, B...

Posted in thread: Carboy when done on 01-17-2005 at 12:18 AMIt's not adequate. You need to sanitize the secondary.

Posted in thread: Barley wine or strong beer on 01-17-2005 at 12:04 AMOK, found a PDF version of the 2004 BJCP guidelines for beer styles. Here is what they say. I'm
comparing category 5C Doppelbock with 19B English Barleywine:On maltiness:DB: very stong
maltinessBW: Ve...

Posted in thread: Barley wine or strong beer on 01-16-2005 at 10:39 PMThe BJCP site appears to be down right now, but Bocks don't have to be black (even hear of a
Blonde Bock?). I could see where what your homebrew supply shop guy is saying could happen. He
even could h...

Posted in thread: Another beginner here...using MrBeer on 01-14-2005 at 06:09 AMYes, DME would be better than Booster. By the by, Mr. Beer is now selling WYeast slap packs for
$5.99!!

Posted in thread: Another beginner here...using MrBeer on 01-13-2005 at 08:02 PMBooster is not only corn sugar. It's a mixture of corn sugar and malto-dextrin. The Mr. Beer
basic kit comes with a can of hopped extract to make West Coast Pale Ale and a package of the
booster. Yes,...

Posted in thread: bud light recipe on 01-13-2005 at 06:09 AMCan't imagine either why you'd want to do this, but Brewer's Best has an
extract-with-specialty-grain kit for American Light beer that's probably about as close as
you're gonna get.